ERP Platform Mining
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The strategic realignment of ERP marks a paradigm shift that has profound business, technical and organizational implications for the entire SAP community and is accompanied by analysts, DSAG user representatives and partners with both criticism and hope. It is a roadmap from the stable but rigid on-prem world to a dynamic but licensing and technically challenging cloud universe in which SAP is no longer the sole fixed star, but a sun in a system of hyperscalers, data specialists such as Databricks and Snowflake and powerful consulting firms.
At the heart of this ERP transformation is the realization that the digital nucleus of the existing SAP customer must be kept clean - the so-called clean core strategy. In order to increase the speed of innovation and ensure the maintainability of an S/4 system or the new Business Suite, modifications and enhancements are rigorously banned from the core and moved to the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). The BTP acts as the technical centerpiece, as a „PaaS“ (Platform-as-a-Service) offering that bundles development, integration, automation, data management and artificial intelligence.
SAP BTP is the place where the future of composable ERP can take place, while the „traditional“ ERP core in the form of S/4 becomes the stable system of record. But this brave new world of Composable ERP brings with it massive technical and organizational challenges. SAP BTP is not a monolithic block - some say not even a platform - but a heterogeneous construction kit consisting of various runtime environments such as Cloud Foundry, Kyma (Kubernetes) and the Abap environment, which is particularly emotional for regular SAP customers and has become known under the code name „Steampunk“.
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